18And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
And the children of Israel said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-18)Here is, I. The message which, after all this introduction, God delivered to Samuel concerning Eli’s house. God did not come to him now to tell him how great a man he should be in his day, what a figure he should make, and what a blessing he should be in Israel. Young people have commonly a great curiosity to be told their fortune, but God came to Samuel, not to gratify his curiosity, but to emplo…
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